Reading the Scottish Enlightenment : books and their readers in provincial Scotland, 1750-1820 /

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The Handpress World explores the impact of the invention of printing by moveable type from the first experiments of the incunabula age through to the end of the eighteenth century. In this crucial period of book history the new technology both transformed established markets for scholarly and religi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Towsey, Mark R. M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Colección:Library of the written word ; 10.
Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 5.
Temas:
1700-1899
Books and reading > Scotland > History > 18th century.
Books and reading > Scotland > History > 19th century.
Enlightenment > Scotland.
Reading interests > Scotland > History > 18th century.
Reading interests > Scotland > History > 19th century.
Libraries > Scotland > History > 18th century.
Libraries > Scotland > History > 19th century.
Philosophy, Scottish.
Livres et lecture > Écosse > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Siècle des Lumières > Écosse.
Goût de la lecture > Écosse > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Goût de la lecture > Écosse > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Bibliothèques > Écosse > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Philosophie écossaise.
Livres et lecture > Écosse > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Bibliothèques > Écosse > Histoire > 19e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Books & Reading.
Books and reading
Enlightenment
Intellectual life
Libraries
Philosophy, Scottish
Reading interests
Scotland > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Scotland > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Écosse > Vie intellectuelle > 19e siècle.
Écosse > Vie intellectuelle > 18e siècle.
Scotland
History
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  • List of Tables; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction." Enlightenment Everywhere": Locating the Reader in the Scottish Enlightenment; Part One Encountering Enlightenment; I." One of the Greatest Ornaments to a Gentleman": Private Libraries; II." A Powerful Means of Improving the Neighbourhood": Subscription Libraries; III." Vice and Obscenity Dreadfully Propagated": Circulating Libraries; IV." A Taste for Reading in the Country": Religious and Endowed Libraries; Part Two Experiencing Enlightenment; V." This Map of my Mind": Recovering Historical Reading Experiences.

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